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Yes Indie'd Pod

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Do I like game design? Yes, indie'd! A podcast of bitesize interviews with indie tabletop roleplaying game creators about their work and game design theory & practice. Releases every two weeks.

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Reading The F**king Manual (w/ Max Lander & Aaron King)

March 14, 2024 10:30 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MB

Support this show! Today we're talking to Max and Aaron from RTFM. Maxwell Lander is a game designer, photographer, visual artist, and also musician with an album of dungeon synth. Aaron King is a game designer whose works including Patchwork World Sixth Edition. They are both the co-hosts of RTFM, an RPG book club podcast. Show Notes: [00:02:49] Why start an RPG bookclub podcast? [00:14:43] What each person brings to the table [00:28:47] Critiquing RPGs as an artform [00:41:24] Infect...

Meeting Games Where They're At [w/ Quinns]

February 26, 2024 09:16 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB

Support the show! Today, we're talking to Quintin Smith aka Quinns, who has been reviewing boardgames for more than a decade with the iconic show, Shut Up and Sit Down. Then about 3 years ago, Quintin joined People Make Games to cover everything from Roblox's relationship to child labour to the battle for ownership and control of Disco Elysium, from the revival of kabaddi in India to phenomenon that is jubensha in china. Now, he's gone and started Quinns Quest, a new youtube channel to revi...

Games That Make You Cry In A Panera (w/ Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland)

February 12, 2024 16:44 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB

Support the show! On this episode, we have Hannah Schaffer and Evan Rowland, the two creators behind indie game design outfit, turtlebun. They've published games like Questlandia, Noirlandia, Damn the man save the music, Mud: a golem memoir, and many more. You can find more about those games at turtlebun.com. Evan and Hannah also co-host a podcast called Design Doc , which is in their own words, about "trying to make a living as people putting things out in the world". If you read any revi...

Bonus: Open Hearth's Games of the Year 2023

January 03, 2024 10:42 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB

A guest episode on the feed today as I share with you something from the folks over at Playing at the Hearth, the podcast from the Open Hearth gaming community. It's a nice, welcoming online place where people from all over the place get together and play games. It's like having access to a convention all year round. If you'd like to join, head over to their website. This episode has members of the community sharing their favourite games played in 2023. Lot of cool games mentioned and I ad...

Best of 2023: Games Recommended By Guests

December 04, 2023 10:30 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MB

Support the show on Patreon In this round-up episode for 2023, every single one of my guests sounds off about one game that they want to recommend to you! [00:02:05] Judd Karlmann recommends Into the Odd, The Between, and As The Sun Forever Sets [00:05:55] Lowell Francis recommends Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition [00:08:27] Jahmal Brown recommends Legacy: Life Among The Ruins 2nd Edition [00:12:05] Indrani Ganguly recommends Alice is Missing, Blase Monotony, and Bubble Bubble [00:13:55] Tan S...

What We Get From Studying Games (w/ Evan Torner)

November 15, 2023 09:30 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MB

Support the show on Patreon Evan Torner is the Associate Professor of German Studies and Film / Media Studies at University of Cincinnati. He's the Director, UC Game Lab and has a co-edited volume (with William J. White) entitled Immersive Gameplay: Essays on Role-Playing and Participatory Media. He's also co-founder and one of the editors at Analog Game Studies, which has been publishing research into RPGs and larps for more than ten years, and the Golden Cobra Challenge, which is a larp c...

Teaching Games: Girl by Moonlight

October 30, 2023 13:30 - 1 hour - 59 MB

Support the show on Patreon The is the second in a series of special episodes meant to teach some of my favourite indie RPGs. Tune in to hear Andrew Gillis, designer of the stunning Girl by Moonlight. In Girl by Moonlight, you play a group of magical girls resisting an oppressive society. It explores the heartbreak of denying who you really are, and the transcendent power of relationships and community. It's one of the best games to come out of the lineage of Blades in the Dark and will u...

How To Run A Publishing Company: The Black Armada Story (w/ Josh Fox)

October 10, 2023 14:30 - 1 hour - 59.8 MB

Support the show on Patreon Josh Fox is the award-winning designer of Flotsam: Adrift Amongst The Stars and Last Fleet. He's the co-designer of the highly influential GMless mystery game, Lovecraftesque alongside Becky Annison. And the two of them together run Black Armada Publishing, a UK-based publisher which has been putting out inventive roleplaying games for more than a decade. Josh is also the editor and cast member of Black Armada Tales, an actual play podcast that features a bunch o...

Bonus: Discussing Band of Blades on DiceExploder

October 03, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MB

Hello! A cross-post in the feed today. This in an episode I did with Sam Dunnewold for his podcast, Dice Exploder, where every episode is a deep dive into a single RPG mechanic (usually) from a specific game. I talk about the Secondary Mission roll from Band of Blades which is a very cool mechanic that I love to think about. It basically inspired me to make a whole game at one point. This is an early release of the episode. It'll only be on Dice Exloder's feed by the end of the month. It...

Teaching Games: Apocalypse Keys

September 25, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

Support the show on Patreon The first episode in a series of special episodes meant to teach some of my favourite indie RPGs. Listen in to hear Rae Nedjadi, designer of Apocalypse Keys, teach you how to play his game. In Apocalypse Keys, you play OMEN-class monsters working for an organisation named DIVISION tasked with holding back the apocalypse. Inspired by Hellboy and BPRD, the players struggle to find Keys before the villainous Harbingers unlock the Doors of Power and bring doom on t...

Reading 1000 RPG Books (w/ Layla Adelman)

August 28, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes - 30.3 MB

Support the show on Patreon Layla Adelman, who goes by the handle pandatheist in RPG spaces, is a rpg designer, writer, and serial twitter thread writer. She's one of the co-designers of the Illuminated Worlds system for Critical Role's Darrington Press. This is the system which powers Candela Obscura and potentially other unannounced games. She was an Ennies judge two years. She blogs over at Bone Box Chant at wordpress.com, including a major series collating and analysing statistics aroun...

Reviewing Games on Youtube (w/ Dave Thaumavore)

August 14, 2023 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB

Support the show on Patreon Dave is a youtuber, reviewer and game designer. His Youtube channel, Dave Thaumavore RPG Reviews, currently has about 180 videos and more than 25,000 subscribers. He's also got a great newsletter where he publishes written interviews game design luminaries. Links to all of this stuff will be in the show notes. He's designed supplements for the Index Card RPG but his most recent standalone game is Fluxfall Horizon, a zany, scifi PbtA game of dimension hopping do-...

15 Years of Deeper In The Game (w/ Chris Chinn)

July 29, 2023 16:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MB

Support the show on Patreon Christopher Chinn is the blogger behind the long-running and well-loved Deeper in the Game blog. He's probably best-known for the Same Page Tool. But started in 2007, the blog has 15 years of thoughtful and insightful writing and advice on RPG design and play. Show Notes: 01:17 - Introducing Chris 02:54 - The origin of the blog (also "rules are for preventing bitterness between friends") 9:56 - How Chris learned to ditch the railroad and embrace improvisation 2...

Actual Play, Actual Work (w/ Emily Friedman)

July 17, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MB

Support the show on Patreon Emily C. Friedman is an associate professor of English at Auburn University and director of 18thconnect, a website dedicated to scholarship of the 18th century. Though an 18th-century literature scholar and critic by training, Emily is now one of the foremost chroniclers of the phenomenon we call actual play. She teaches games and actual play in the classroom and regularly writes about actual play on gaming website, Polygon. In fact, as of recording this, we're c...

How To Summon Demons With Cards (w/ Becky Annison)

June 01, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, I'm talking to Becky Annison, the co-founder of UK-based design company, Black Armada Games. She's the award-winning designer of When the Dark Is Gone, part of the Seven Wonders anthology from Pelgrane Press. And is probably best known for the high drama werewolf game, Bite Marks, and GM-less mystery game, Lovecraftesque, on which she's the co-designer. When she's not working on games, she's a lawyer who works on high level climate change issues....

Reading Indie Games At The Club (w/ Paul Beakley)

May 16, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MB

Support the show on Patreon This week, we're talking to Paul Beakley has been involved with the games industry since at least the mid 1990s. He's a Game Chef finalist, a Golden Cobra honourable mention, and an official designer/adventure module writer for games like Deadlands, Earthdawn, Mutant Chronicles and more. He's also been writing about games for a long time, across various websites, forums, and magazines like Pyramid and Inphobia. But we're here today to talk about the Indie Game Re...

All Superhero RPGs, All The Time [w/ Fiona Hopkins and Stephanie Burt]

April 20, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MB

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, I'm chatting with Fiona Hopkins and Stephanie Burt, who are the co-hosts of Team Up Moves, a podcast about playing and discussing superhero tabletop RPGs. I'm a big fan of the podcast and so I reached out to the two of them. Apart from RPGs, Fiona is a front-end software engineer by trade who worked at Google, Twitter, the City of Boston and now the Democratic party. Stephanie is a poet and a professor of English at Harvard University. She's also...

Singapore, History, & RPGs (w/ Tan Shao Han)

April 07, 2023 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MB

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're talking to Tan Shao Han, a TTRPG designer, writer, and cultural consultant from Singapore. He's contributed words to various Paizo Pathfinder books, including Lost Omens: Impossible Lands, new Dagger Isles supplement for Blades in the Dark, and other games like Monster Care Squad and ARC. He's the co-founder of Curious Chimeras, a company that makes games and games-adjacent interactive experiences. Shao Han interestingly did his Master’s T...

Building India's RPG Scene (w/ Indrani Ganguly)

March 15, 2023 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're talking to Indrani Ganguly who is the marketing manager for Hunters Entertainment, the publisher of Kids on Bikes, Alice is Missing, among other games. She is also the co-founder of Desis n Dragons, probably India's largest community of tabletop roleplayers. Of which, I am a humble member. Indrani is also a dicemaker, an artisan, making beautiful and custom math rocks under the name Nonagon Dice. She was a part of last year's Big Bad Con Po...

The RPG Dream Hustle (w/ Mad Jay Zero)

February 28, 2023 15:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MB

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're speaking to Jahmal Brown aka Mad Jay Zero. Jay is a podcaster, designer and rockstar GM. His podcast Diceology features interviews with folks from the RPG scene as well as fun recaps of his various games in Last Week in Gaming. As a game designer, he's contributed words to books like Pathfinder's magnificent Mwangi Expanse as well as designed his own games, Lifted Vol 1: Indomitable, a people with superpowers game primed by cortex. He also ...

The Encyclopedic GM (w/ Lowell Francis)

February 15, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MB

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're speaking to Lowell Francis the writer behind the Ennie award winning RPG blog, Age of Ravens, which you can find at ageofravensgames.com. He's the co-designer of the fantastic Hearts of Wulin, a PbtA game of wuxia melodrama. He is also the Gauntlet Gaming Community Manager and co-host of Gauntlet Podcast. He is a comics author (he wrote Superman!), met his wife playing Magic the Gathering, and got knocked over by the fifth Dr. Who at a sign...

The GM Who Talks To Goats (with Judd Karlman)

January 31, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MB

Support the show on Patreon On this episode, we're speaking to Judd Karlman, the podcaster behind Daydreaming about Dragons, my personal favourite source of GM advice. Every episode of his podcast has two parts: table techniques, where Judd talks offers techniques to play roleplaying games, and inspiration goat, where a real goat recommends media to Judd and he explains how that media can inspire your game. Judd is also the author of gaming supplements, most notably Dictionary of Mu, a sett...

Marx Shepherd discusses Yes Indie'd Pod

December 31, 2022 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB

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Thomas Manuel

December 28, 2022 21:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB

Marx interviews Thomas Manuel about games journalism, the synergy or dissonance between being a playwright and being a game designer, and about his games The Spider and the City, Hypercity, and Depths Unfathomable. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Thomas Manuel on Twitter Thomas Manuel on Itchio Thomas Manuel official website Marx Shepherd on Twitter Marx Shepherd on Itchio All music derived from: be quiet from the album Sk...

Cezar Capacle discusses Push

November 30, 2022 22:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MB

Marx interviews Cezar Capacle about Push and philosophies of game design, I Guess This Is It and minimalist story gaming, and how to publicise oneself in a post-Twitter world. This episode is kindly sponsored by Matthew Gravelyn, whose game Tapestry is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Cezar Capacle on Twitter Cezar Capacle on Itchio Cezar Capacle bio page Thomas Manuel on Twitter Thomas Manuel on Itchio Thom...

Michael Low discusses Starsworn

November 14, 2022 21:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MB

Marx interviews Michael Low of Luck of Legends Games about games in the classroom, education in games, and about the choose-your-own-adventure colouring book RPG training manual Starsworn. This episode is kindly sponsored by Matthew Gravelyn, whose game Tapestry is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Starsworn on Kickstarter Michael Low on Twitter Luck of Legends on Itchio Cezar Capacle on Twitter Cezar Capacle ...

James Davey discusses The Midnight World

October 28, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB

Marx interviews James Davey of Gem and Eye Games about The Midnight World, a game about mental health, world-altering powers, and terrifying gods from other dimensions. This episode is kindly sponsored by Kurt Refling and Ian Howard, whose game Here We Used to Fly is on Kickstarter now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi The Midnight World official website The Midnight World on Facebook The Midnight World on DTRPG / Itchio Sta...

Thomas Eliot discusses Fear of the Unknown

October 28, 2022 09:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

Marx interviews Thomas Eliot of Sixpence Games about Fear of the Unknown, a one-shot game of building towns and investigating horrors. This episode is kindly sponsored by Kurt Refling and Ian Howard, whose game Here We Used to Fly is on Kickstarter now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Fear of the Unknown on Kickstarter Thomas Eliot on Twitter Sixpence Games official website The Midnight World official website The Midnight ...

Announcement - September 2022

September 26, 2022 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.53 MB

A brief announcement about the future of Yes Indie'd Pod. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website All music derived from: be quiet from the album Sketches by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License • available from Free Music Archive Support the show The Yes Indie'd Website // The Indie RPG Newsletter

IPM 2022 - Draw Your Dice

September 18, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MB

Marx interviews Jeremy Gage of Have You Played This, whose podcast Draw Your Dice is an educational podcast exploring how to make TTRPGs. This week’s sponsor is By Odins Beard RPG whose game We Deal In Lead is available for pre-order now! Or, check out the Other Worlds game jam on Itchio. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Jeremy Gage on Twitter Have You Played This? Network Draw Your Dice Podcast All music derived from: be qu...

IPM 2022 - The Lost Bay

September 04, 2022 16:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MB

Marx interviews Iko of The Lost Bay Podcast, a podcast focusing on indie TTRPG zines and their creators. This week’s sponsor is Elijah Mills whose game Campfire is out now! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi The Lost Bay Podcast on Twitter The Lost Bay on Itchio The Lost Bay Podcast official website Jeremy Gage on Twitter Have You Played This? Network Draw Your Dice Podcast All music derived from: be quiet from the album Sk...

Spooky Bell Games discuss Beyond Deep

August 28, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB

Marx interviews Chris and Wes of Spooky Bell Games about Beyond Deep, an adventure and locale for Mörk Borg set in a mining company town. This week’s sponsor is Gamenomicon whose game Goblin Market is on Kickstarter now! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Beyond Deep on Kickstarter Chris on Twitter / Wes on Twitter Spooky Bell Games on Instagram / Facebook / TikTok The Lost Bay Podcast on Twitter The Lost Bay on Itchio The L...

Jim Hall discusses Worldlings

August 21, 2022 16:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB

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Tanya Floaker discusses Lo! Thy Dread Empire

August 14, 2022 16:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB

Marx interviews Tanya Floaker about Lo! Thy Dread Empire, a narrative wargame about undead workers fighting capitalist death cults in the ashes of a dying world. This week’s sponsor is Grumpy Bear Stuff whose game Daily Dread is Kickstarting in August 2022 in as part of Zinequest 4. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi Tanya Floaker on Twitter Time of Tribes on Itchio Lo! Thy Dread Empire on Kickstarter Brooklet Games on Twitter...

Ben Wallis discusses Broken

August 07, 2022 16:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MB

Marx interviews Ben Wallis, a.k.a. ThatGamerPriest, about Broken, a duet story game telling the story of the breakdown of a relationship. This week’s sponsor is Grumpy Bear Stuff whose game Daily Dread is Kickstarting in August 2022 in as part of Zinequest 4. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Benjamin Wallis on Twitter APON Games on Twitter BR💔KEN on Itchio All Ports Open Network official website Tanya Floaker on Twitter T...

Alex Roberts

July 31, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB

Marx interviews Alex Roberts, creator of Starcrossed and For The Queen, larper extraordinaire, and former host of the podcast Backstory. This week’s sponsor is Beyond Cataclysm, whose podcast What Is Roleplay? is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Alex Roberts on Twitter Alex Roberts on Itchio Alex Roberts official website Backstory on the OneShot Podcast Network Benjamin Wallis on Twitter APON Games on Twitt...

Yes In RPGLatAm'd - Ductomaniac a.k.a Adrián Mejía

July 17, 2022 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MB

Marx interviews Adrián Mejía, an Ecuadorian creator creating Koboa, a Latin American-inspired setting guide featuring creators from many cultures across South America. This week’s sponsor is Beyond Cataclysm, whose podcast What Is Roleplay? is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Ductomaniac on Twitter Ductomaniac on Itchio Koboa mailing list Nynphaiel on Twitter Nynphaiel on Instagram All music derived from: b...

Yes In RPGLatAm'd - Diogo of Toca do Coruja

June 30, 2022 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB

Marx interviews Diogo of Toca do Coruja, a Brazilian translation team working to bring indie TTRPGs to Brazilian Portuguese speakers. This week’s sponsor is Beyond Cataclysm, whose podcast What Is Roleplay? is available now. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Diogo on Twitter Toca do Coruja on Twitter Toca do Coruja official website Ductomaniac a.k.a Adrián Mejía on Twitter Koboa mailing list All music derived from: be quie...

Yes In RPGLatAm'd - Misha Panarin

June 15, 2022 16:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MB

Marx interviews Argentinian game designer and scene organiser Misha Panarin, about her LatAm Breakout project Cantrip, and about introducing people to new roleplaying games. This week’s sponsor is Anthropos Games, whose game Heterodoxy is available from June 2022. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Misha Panarin on Twitter Misha Panarin on Itchio Cantrip at Soul Muppet Publishing Diogo on Twitter Toca do Coruja on Twitter A...

AireCon 2022 Special

May 29, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB

A special episode from analogue games convention AireCon, featuring interviews from board game, card game, and roleplaying game creators. This week’s sponsor is Anthropos Games, whose game Heterodoxy is available from June 2022. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  AireCon official website / on Twitter Paper Boat Games official website / on Twitter Beyond Cataclysm Books official website / on Twitter Stuff By Bez official websi...

Harrigan discusses play-by-post

May 01, 2022 16:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

Marx interviews Harrigan, a huge play-by-post enthusiast and a big fan and consumer of the OSR scene. This week’s sponsor is James M Hewitt of Needy Cat Games, whose game Vampires Suck At Shopping is available now! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Tavern Keeper official website GamersPlane official website All music derived from: be quiet from the album Sketches by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Inte...

Tony of Plus One discusses Through The Void

March 27, 2022 17:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MB

Marx interviews Tony of Plus One Exp about Through The Void, a dungeon-crawling storytelling game set in an impossible space station in the midst of lethal space. This week’s sponsor is Jamie O’Duibhir of Therapeutic Blasphemy Games, whose mental health and destressing podcast Quiet Power is available now wherever podcasts are found. Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Tony Vasinda on Twitter Plus One Exp official website Plus ...

Kalum of The Rolistes discusses Paris Gondo: The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying

March 13, 2022 17:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MB

Marx interviews Kalum of the Rolistes about Paris Gondo, the Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying, a game of stuff you find in a dungeon, and how it can truly transform your life. This week’s sponsor is CM Lowry, whose game Tyrannosaur Inside is Kickstarting and Itchfunding right now! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  The Rolistes Pod on Twitter The Rolistes on Itchio The Rolistes official website Tony Vasinda on Twitter Plus ...

Yes InZine'd Pod 2022 - Ema Acosta of Pocket Compass Co. discusses The Exiles

February 28, 2022 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB

Nondairy Giant and Mac interview Ema Acosta about The Exiles, a dark fantasy expansion for the feelings-delving RPG Crescent Moon telling the story of blight-touched outcasts fighting their way out of the underworld as they grapple with their inner demons. Today’s episode is sponsored by Kelly Bean of Thick Thief Games, whose project The Skills To Pay The Bills is Itchfunding from February 1st 2022! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko...

Yes InZine'd Pod 2022 - NondairyGiant and Mac discuss NUKED!

February 25, 2022 17:00 - 14 minutes - 9.84 MB

Richard interviews Nondairy Giant and Mac about NUKED!, a post-apocalyptic Knave hack where players take on the role of raider-blasting, bunker-delving Skrappers, just trying to make it in the remains of the world.  Today’s episode is sponsored by By Odin’s Beard RPG (Twitter), whose game Runecairn: Warden is coming soon to Exalted Funeral! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Nondairy Giant on Twitter / Mac on Twitter Mac Makes ...

Yes InZine'd Pod 2022 - Richard Ruane discusses Sherwood Outlaws

February 23, 2022 17:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MB

Max interviews Richard Ruane about Sherwood Outlaws, a Robin Hood-inspired game of forming a crew of outlaws, setting a code of honor, and using banditry and burglary to deal with local landlords and other petty tyrants. Today’s episode is sponsored by in*die zine, six back issues available now and the in🦕die zine available in March 2022! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Richard Ruane on Twitter R. Rook Studios on Twitter R....

Yes InZine'd Pod 2022 - Max Fefer discusses Esther and the Queens

February 21, 2022 17:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MB

Jo interviews Max Fefer about Esther and the Queens, a Purim-themed Jewish, queer, and feminist game featuring Queen Esther, carnival games, and lots of drama. Today’s episode is sponsored by David Blandy of davidblandy.itch.io, whose solo game Lone Eons is Itchfunding for art until February 28th! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Max Fefer on Twitter Max Fefer on Itchio Esther and the Queens on Kickstarter All music adapted...

Yes InZine'd Pod 2022 - Jo Winter discusses The Fall of Home

February 19, 2022 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MB

Albi interviews Jo Winter about The Fall of Home, a one-game in which a group of travelers meet on the road back to their ruined hometown, and reminisce about the place they gew up. Today’s episode is sponsored by Adam Bell, whose website Have You Played This? is posting new stuff weekly! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Jo Winter on Twitter Wintertide Games on Itchio The Fall of Home on Kickstarter All music adapted from: ...

Yes InZine'd Pod 2022 - Albi discusses The Royal Cartographer

February 17, 2022 17:00 - 14 minutes - 9.87 MB

Joie interviews Albi about The Royal Cartographer, a worldbuilding RPG in which players create a map of important cultural places, and negotiate with the royal cartographer when only some can be on the official kingdom map.  Today's episode is sponsored by Craig Duffy of LunarShadow, whose game Signal to Noise is crowdfunding on Game on Tabletop from February 8th! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Albi on Twitter Albi13 on Itc...

Yes InZine'd Pod 2022 - Joie Martin discusses Starkhollow Hall

February 15, 2022 17:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MB

Cali and Dan interview Joie Martin about Starkhollow Hall, a gothic fiction-inspired tabletop roleplaying game set in a remote girls' boarding school. This episode is sponsored by Raphael Falk of GamesGarden, whose game Lucid: Sea of Dreams is crowdfunding on Kickstarter February 1st to February 18th! Yes Indie'd Pod on Twitter Yes Indie’d Pod website Yes Indie’d Pod Patreon Donate via Ko-Fi  Joie Martin on Twitter Drowning Moon Studios on Twitter Drowning Moon Studios official websi...

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